Banks and financial institutions expanded credit by 7.9 percent in the first eight months of the current fiscal year despite facing shortage of funds that could be disbursed as loans.
Banks and financial institutions disbursed Rs275.1 billion in fresh loans in the eight-month period between mid-July and mid-March of this fiscal year, shows the latest data of the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the central bank. Banks and financial institutions had disbursed Rs254.9 billion in fresh credit in the same period a year ago.
Bankers said the credit expansion rate of the eight-month period was one of the slowest in years as they have not been able to meet the credit demand due to sluggish deposit growth following deceleration in remittance inflow and slow public spending. Lower supply of deposit has pushed up credit rates, keeping borrowers at bay.
Some of the sectors that saw higher credit demand in the first eight months of the current fiscal year are wholesale and retail, services and agriculture.
Agriculture sector absorbed Rs38.3 billion in loans in the eight-month period, up 474.7 percent than in the same period a year ago, NRB report shows. Credit uptake in the wholesale and retail sector was also healthy, with loan consumption standing at Rs61.4 billion in the first eight months of the current fiscal year. This marked a year-on-year growth of 26.1 percent. Services sector also saw 17.3 percent jump in credit expansion to Rs21.8 billion in the first eight months of the current fiscal year.
Agriculture, wholesale and retail, and services sectors accounted for 13.9 percent, 22.3 percent and 7.9 percent of credit disbursement, respectively, in the first eight months of the current fiscal year.
However, credit uptake in some of the crucial sectors such as production and construction that create large number of jobs remained dismal, NRB report shows.
Credit disbursement in the production sector fell 14.8 percent in the first eight months of the current fiscal year. The sector absorbed Rs30.3 billion in credit in the eight-month period, as against Rs35.6 billion in the same period a year ago.
Construction sector, on the other hand, saw 26.6 percent fall in disbursement of fresh credit. The sector consumed Rs24.1 billion in loans in the eight-month period, as against Rs32.8 billion in the same period a year ago. Despite this, credit disbursement in the non-residential construction sector soared 114.5 percent to Rs2 billion in the eight-month period, shows the NRB report.
Of the total outstanding loans of banks and financial institutions till date, 61.4 percent are against the collateral of land and building, and 14.7 percent are against the collateral of current assets. Such ratios stood at 60.2 percent and 14.5 percent, respectively, in the same period a year ago.
Banks and financial institutions have so far disbursed Rs2,261.3 billion in credit.


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"When most tourists in Buenos Aires fancy a bit of antique shopping the first place they usually head to is San Telmo. However, anyone who knows anything about second hand shopping will know that the place for antiques is the Buenos Aires Flea Market (in Spanish, el Mercado de las Pulgas) in the Colegiales neighborhood.
This impressive centre for antique shopping was reopened June 11th, 2011, after having been closed for six years. During the Buenos Aires Flea Market's extended closure, the vendors moved to makeshift, shed-type structures next door where they sold their goods. The newly renovated building is, however, designed to house the vendors and their goods and is a much better place to browse the goods on offer. The red-painted, modern structure is covered over so antique hunters can shop whatever the weather.
The Mercado de las Pulgas was originally opened in 1988, but the building was closed in 2005 due to fire safety regulations. The building has since been totally renovated with fire escapes and security systems also put in place.
The Buenos Aires flea market has 143 stalls that offer everything from china goods, crystal wear, antique pieces and furniture. All of the pieces on sale are beautiful and eye-catching, so you can wander round the Flea Market enjoying the atmosphere, without having to spend a fortune.
The prices, however, are reasonable and you're sure to grab a bargain on something that perhaps in the States or Europe would be much more expensive. Prices obviously vary depending on what you're looking for. For example, an antique, marble side table with bronze detailing costs only $ 5000 Argentine pesos. There are also other side tables that have a smaller price tag, costing between 700 and 900 pesos, so there is something for everyone, no matter what your budget.
The renovated building has been equipped with bathrooms, a car park, and utility room. The large building covers 13,400 m2 and is located at the intersection of Dorrego and Conde Street, right on edge of the Palermo neighborhood. You can enjoy the market Tuesday to Sundays from 10 am to 7 pm.
We visited the market on a cloud-covered Wednesday afternoon. As you can see in the images below, it wasn't very crowded and several shops were actually closed (maybe for afternoon siesta?). The huge building holds all kinds of shops featuring a great variety of antiques as well as new and used furniture/household fixtures. Some shops are packed to the brim, while others are comparably empty. A few standouts include a very nice lighting shop and an artist studio. Overall, the building is very clean and neat with wide aisles. By US standards, prices are pretty good, though some items are terribly overpriced (probably due to their uniqueness in Argentina or to sell to tourists). You can certainly find some interesting items in the market and in the shops surrounding it…if only we didn't have to pack or ship it back to the US.


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Posted in Place Names, Railways, Superlatives, tagged breckland line, burnt fen, cambridgeshire, chivers jam, eastern counties railway, fenland, hereward, holme fen, parliamentary train, quietest station in britain, shinjuku railway station, tees-side airport, the fens on 13 January 2016| 3 Comments »
What does Shippea Hill, a remote railway station in Cambridgeshire, have in common with Shinjuku railway station in Tokyo, Japan? It's all a question of busyness. Shinjuku is the world's busiest station and is used by 1.26 billion passengers each year, whereas at Shippea Hill there is not much going on. In Europe, the busiest station according to recent analysis by the Independent newspaper, which takes account of metro or underground users as well, is Waterloo in London with 200 million passengers a year, followed by the Gare du Nord in Paris with 180 million users a year. So what about the least busy railway stations?
No photo can do justice to Shinjuku Railway Station, the world's busiest transport hub with its 11 separate railway lines, 36 platforms and 200 entrances. Here is a pedestrian crossing to just one of those entrances.
World-wide figures for the quietest stations are not available, nor are there any for Europe. But according to the figures for 2014-15 released on 15 December by the UK Office of Rail and Road, there are ten stations on the national rail network that have fewer than 100 passengers a year. By comparison, Shinjuku has 12 million times more users.
The Least Busy Railway Stations
The ten least busy stations in Britain during 2014-15, in decreasing order of the number of users, are
10 Breich in West Lothian, Scotland (with 92 passengers)
9 Elston & Orston in Nottinghamshire, England (88)
8 Buckenham in Norfolk, England (88)
7 Golf Street in the town of Carnoustie, Angus in Scotland (86)
6 Pilning in Gloucestershire, England (68)
5 Barry Links west of Carnoustie, Angus in Scotland (60)
4 Reddish South in Stockport, Greater Manchester (54)
3 Tees-side Airport near Darlington, County Durham (32)
2 Coombe Junction serving the villages of Coombe and Lamellion, near Liskeard, Cornwall (26)
1 Shippea Hill serving the hamlets of Shippea Hill and Prickwillow in Cambridgeshire (with 22 passengers)
The reason for these very low levels of patronage is usually the small number of trains that actually stop at these stations. Take Tees-side Airport. You would expect a station apparently serving an airport to have tens of thousands of users a year. Despite the name, the station is a fifteen-minute walk from the airport, so accessibility is a major factor in its lack of usage. The other is that only two trains stop at the station each week, both on a Sunday: the eastbound Northern service 11.14 Darlington to Hartlepool, and the westbound 12.35 Hartlepool to Darlington. Sadly campaigns to highlight the poor rail service at the station, and to persuade rail authorities to move the station 500 metres closer to the airport terminal, have so far been unsuccessful.
Shippea Hill is marked on this railway map with Ely to the west and Norwich to the east. Most of the land to the north of Cambridge is the Fens, which drain into the square area of sea to the north, which is called the Wash.
Why did Shippea Hill however attract just 22 passengers from April 2014 to March 2015? Firstly only one train a day going eastwards towards Norwich actually stops there, the 07.28 which runs from Cambridge via Ely to Norwich (07.25 on a Saturday), and then not on a Sunday. Going westwards there is just one train a week, on a Saturday, the 19.27 that runs from Norwich to Cambridge. The service then is almost non-existent. Shippea Hill is also a request stop, so passengers must inform the driver or conductor if they want to get off, or put their hand out as they stand on the station to alert the driver that they want to get on.
On a weekday over 30 passenger trains, including an East Midlands hourly 125 service between Norwich and Liverpool, pass through Shippea Hill each way so the route itself is a busy one. But why don't more trains stop there? The simple answer is that it is a remote location where very few people live.
Where is Shippea Hill?
Shippea Hill railway station lies in the east of Cambridgeshire, with the Suffolk border 200 yards to the east, and a triple border with Norfolk a little further to the north-east. The station is on the Breckland Line that runs between Ely in the west and Norwich in the east. The station was opened in July 1845 by the Eastern Counties Railway as Mildenhall Road, the road that crosses the railway next to the station, though Mildenhall itself is eight miles away.
In 1885, with the opening of a separate railway from Cambridge to Mildenhall, the name of the station was changed to Burnt Fen, the name of the surrounding area. Finally in 1905 the current name was adopted. The only settlements are farms, and the nearest hamlet of Prickwillow is four and a half miles away by road. The name Shippea Hill seems odd as being in The Fens, the area is very flat and much of the land around the station is about one metre below sea level as a result of the draining of the fens. It is therefore very likely to be the only station in the world with 'hill' in its name that is below sea level.
Shippea Hill Farm © Evelyn Simak / Creative Commons Licence
Shippea Hill Farm (photo left) is a mile and a half to the west of the station (see map above), and stands on slightly higher ground 5 metres high but it is still surrounded by land at sea level. It is one of the few areas within Burnt Fen which rises above sea level, hence the 'hill'. Potatoes are the main crop today, and the farm is owned by Frederick Hiam Ltd. Fresh produce is still delivered daily to Covent Garden and Spitalfields markets in London.
There are farms that are nearer to the station than Shippea Hill Farm, though they may no longer have lived-in farmhouses. One of the nearest is Bulldog Bridge Farm, less than a mile away to the west along the A1101 to Littleport. Bulldog Bridge, which crosses Engine Drain, is back along the road towards the station. Might Bulldog Bridge have been a more appropriate name for the station?
The Fens, also known as Fenland, cover an area of 1,500 sq miles in eastern England, and they were drained in the 18th century leading so that most of the area lies at sea level or just above. Read more about this here. Incidentally the lowest point in Britain, at 2.75 metres (9.5 ft) below sea level, is also in the Fens at Holme Fen. The land is very fertile and it continues to be protected from floods by drainage banks and pumps that work continuously. In the 17th century however the land was described as being all above sea level so perhaps Shippea Hill was a more significant hill then.
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Posted in Geography, Places of Interest, Superlatives, tagged cambridgeshire, crystal palace, fenland, holme fen nature reserve, holme fen post, lincolnshire, lowest point in britain, peat shrinkage, sea level, the fens, whittlesey mere on 21 June 2013| Leave a Comment »
The approximate extent of the Fens or Fenland in Eastern England is shown by the blue line. The red circle is the location of Holme Fen.
Perhaps not unsurprisingly the lowest point in Britain is in the Fens or Fenland, the area of marshland or former marshland in eastern England that lies around the coast of the Wash, most of which lies in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. Much of the Fens was originally fresh- or salt-water wetlands, but they have artificially drained since the 17th century and are now a very fertile area of arable land, which continues to be protected from floods by drainage banks and pumps. As a result of being drained most of the Fens lie within a few metres of sea level like similar areas in the Netherlands.
Near the village of Holme in Cambridgeshire, is Holme Fen National Nature Reserve which is situated on what was the shore of the Whittlesey Mere which was drained in 1851 after years of falling water levels due to the draining of the surrounding fen. At the time an oak post was sunk into the ground alongside the minor road that runs through the reserve resting on the clay beneath the peat with the top flush with the peatland surface to monitor the shrinkage of the land as it continued to be drained.
Holme Fen post which was sunk in 1851. Originally the pyramid at the top of the post was at ground level. The collar, to which the steel guys are attached, is 2.75m above the ground, which is close to sea level.
© Copyright Rodney Burton/Creative Commons Licence
A few years later this was replaced with an iron post, believed to have been part of the Crystal Palace. In 1957 steel guy wires were added as the post had become unstable, and four metres of the Holme Post are now exposed which provides impressive evidence of the extent to which the ground has subsided. Sea level is close to the level of the collar to which the guys are attached, and this is now the lowest land in Britain at about 2.75m (9.5 ft) below sea level.
Access to the reserve is via minor roads, first for 1km north from the B660 at Holme, and then turning right (north-west) for another 1.5km. The post is on the right hand side of the road. The town of Yaxley is seven km to the north-west and Peterborough is 12 km to the north. The grid reference of the Holme Post is TL 202 893.

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Uruguay's FTA with China would endanger Mercosur, Vieira says
Lula da Silva overshadowing Mercosur diplomacy and trade agreements
Vazquez in verbal clash with dissident farmers and loses his temper
Tuesday, February 20th 2018 - 10:18 UTC
President Vazquez is hounded by dissident farmers complaining for not having been invited to the first round of talks with government officials (Pic El Observa)
Uruguayan farmers are angry, and so is president Tabare Vazquez who was involved in a high tone incident, far removed from what is his normal style of an oncologist having to communicate bad news. On Monday afternoon Vazquez unexpectedly attended the first round of talks between disenchanted farmers' lobbies with government officials to discuss a raft of measures to overcome some of the long standing complaints.
Vazquez announced some support measures for dairy, rice, horticulture and livestock farmers referred to lower fuel and power costs, reduction in land taxes, allowing cattle to graze next to the roads system, and even considered the possibility of government declaring a drought emergency in the north of Uruguay. This opens the way for soft loans and helping with water supply, fodder and other foods for livestock.
Although farmers were uncommitted about the announcements, since they wanted to read the small letter of the decrees, the meeting with the president was respectful and serious. However when Vázquez left the Ministry of Agriculture, a group of small farmers and farm workers were waiting outside, and an argument broke out. Basically the complaint was that these small farmers had not been invited to the talks and the discussion turned rather heavy tone because "announced measures were insufficient, a joke", and "Mr. President why don't you try working in a farm".
This was followed by some ironic questions from Vazquez and a barrage of accusations continued referred to the bloated government budget, to the bankrupt oil and distribution government company, insecurity and the lack of police action when a teen ager remains on the run after having shot dead three people. And the tone of discussion kept rising with crossed accusations of "liar" and "crook", with the president appealing to language and slang expressions more appropriate to his past as president of a football team, and not as an academic.
Finally Vazquez head for the vehicle waiting for him and then people started chanting "Uruguay, Uruguay", so he decided to return and join the crowd chorus. But when he joined the crowd kept silent. It was then that someone in the crowd said "keep lying Mr. president", and a furious Mr. president returned and asked face to face, "are you calling me a liar, I'm here because I always say the truth, I never hide". The man, a farmer insisted "why weren't we invited to the meeting?". Vazquez again asked if he had called him a liar and the farmer insisted he had personally brought a letter of request to attend the meeting to the presidency.
Vazquez replied he never received it, so the farmer asked who runs the place, "me the president, and I don't lie".
A third party intervened and argued nobody was saying the president was lying, and the face to face incident cooled down. Vazquez again returned to the car and several people made some strong but not insulting comments including one who farewelled and told the president "we'll meet at the polls, and we are going to kick you out".
Vazquez again returned and replied, "Yes thank you, I like what you said, this simply confirms what I have stated all along: you are a political party, yes we will meet at the ballot"
Before the car started there was a last condemnation, "we're going to kick you and your inept gang out".
Later the farmers' lobbies at the meeting, unaware of what had happened outside with the president rejected the incident and took distance from the dissident farmers, while the ruling coalition expressed full support for the president. A president who also showed his other, coarse, side.
Categories: Agriculture, Economy, Politics, Uruguay.
Tags: Tabaré Vázquez, Uruguay, Uruguay farming sector.
DemonTree
I love Uruguay, their politicians are so hilariously honest about what they really think.
Feb 20th, 2018 - 01:39 pm +1
HughJuanCoeurs
@DT The words "honest" and "politician" are mutually exclusive as are "military" +"intelligence", "British" + "fashion", "Argentine" + "sensible" and "Microsoft" + "Works"
Feb 20th, 2018 - 09:48 pm 0
What's wrong with British fashion?


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New Jersey: Family's Report Thwarts Pressure-Cooker Bomb Plot
A Point Pleasant (Ocean County) man faces federal terrorism charges after a family member notified law enforcement of his erratic behavior—underscoring the role friends, relatives, and close associates play in countering violence. According to authorities, Gregory Lepsky plotted to build a pressure-cooker bomb and detonate it in New York City to "kill as many people as possible" in support of ISIS.
On February 21, a relative notified local law enforcement that Lepsky had a weapon and was going to kill the family dog. Officers discovered the dog alive, but with a large wound, and subsequently arrested Lepsky. According to the criminal complaint, Lepsky stated that he had stabbed the dog because, in his view of Islam, dogs are "dirty." He also said he planned to kill his mother and praised ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
During the investigation, officers found a pressure cooker in Lepsky's closet, as well as several books on jihad and suicide bombing. On May 5, federal prosecutors charged Lepsky with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in federal prison.
Family members, peers, and close contacts may be the first to notice radical shifts in behavior and attitude, as well as unusual Internet activity. According to Western media reports, Islamic extremists are 71 percent more likely to "leak" their violent intentions to friends, relatives, or other associates, compared to 53 percent of right-wing extremists, such as neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
The family member who contacted Point Pleasant police first noticed a change in Lepsky's behavior in December, stating he began expressing radical Islamic rhetoric in his text messages and social media posts. In one message, Lepsky stated, "Allah (the most exalted) commands us Muslims to fight against the desbelivers [sic] until there is none left!"
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The Pura sponsored Ocean Sheroes are record breakers!
Using only Pura wipes to keep them clean, the Ocean Sheroes have smashed the world record for the fastest all female four to row 2,400 nautical miles, from San Francisco to Hawaii in 35 days, 14 hours and 32 minutes!
One of the toughest endurance challenges on earth pushed Bella Collins, Purusha Gordon, Mary Sutherland, and Lily Lower to their limits, rowing 2 hours on 2 hours off, 24/7 in brutal conditions of 30ft waves and gusts of wind reaching 47mph.
Helping the brave Sheroes to protect their skin and the ocean during the race, Pura donated 4,000 of our 100% plastic-free, biodegradable, Water UK certified Fine to Flush baby wipes for the crew to ration throughout the race.
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The fab four obliterated the previous world record of 50 days, 8 hours and 14 minutes by 14 days. They also become the first all British four to complete the Great Pacific Race.
For P (Purusha), mum of two young boys Harry (8) and Alfie (7), this was more than just a record.
She said: "Achieving the record was something I had hung my hat on for a while as a definition of success. Halfway through the row, I realised the record was just a small part of it.
"To cross an ocean by human power alone and to cross waters never chartered before, at times at the mercy of Mother Nature, was a privilege and the most incredible adventure of a lifetime.
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When asked for the secret to the team's success, Mary Sutherland said "Resilience and goal focus is key, along with knowing your team's capabilities and how hard you can push them. Throw in a general 'get it done' attitude and you have a recipe for great things.
"My personal expectations of what our team could achieve was around the 40 mark and I'm so happy to have blown that out of the water, but we worked hard for our achievements."
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Ever wanted a greater range of possibilities with Jelastic to match your growing demands? Ever wished that the web services, that are run on the Windows operating system, could be easily hosted inside the cloud? That they could be maintained with the already familiar and outstanding Jelastic features like auto scalability and fair pricing? Now you've got it! In the latest 3.1 release another important milestone was achieved by Jelastic on the road to entirely multilingual hosting – we enthusiastically present you with the implementation of Windows-based containers (beta stage) at our PaaS.
Windows VPS server with the pure Windows Server OS installed.
Note: The availability of the .NET programming language tab at your topology wizard depends on your hosting provider's settings.
All the Windows-based nodes are delivered with the embedded Remote Desktop Protocol support, which allows you to connect to a virtual desktop of your Windows machine and perform any required server configurations through it, using the appropriate set of in-built, default tools.
To make server management even more comfortable, Jelastic has integrated the one-click mechanism for the RDP connection establishment directly from your dashboard. This allows you to work with the required remote desktop right in your browser via the Guacamole HTML5 client. For this purpose, select the Open in browser point inside the expandable Remote desktop menu next to the preferable Windows-based node (shown in the image above). Beside this default connection scenario, Jelastic also lets to use any preferable local RDP client, putting zero limitations on you.
And now let us present a short summary on each of the provided Windows instances and the possibilities they enable.
Jelastic provides version 8.0 of the Internet Information Services (IIS) web server with the embedded 4.5 ASP.NET support, which is fully backwards compatible with the legacy versions. As with any other application server, its main purpose is to serve different kinds of projects, like web-sites, applications, services etc, written in .NET.
In order to learn how to get your own IIS 8 instance at Jelastic, read the corresponding guide within our documentation.
Apart from the standard functions, this server is tightly connected with the highly popular Microsoft-designed integrated development environment – Microsoft Visual Studio. This considerably simplifies .NET apps' deployment process, allowing both quick project publishing from the abovementioned IDE, directly to the Jelastic Platform by means of the WebDeploy tool and the traditional manual package deployment through the dashboard.
To get more information on the .NET applications management, refer to the corresponding instruction.
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database, that can be used in a bundle with your .NET project (or any other app) to allow it to work with the data inside.
By default, Jelastic distributes the Express edition of this server, which has some small limitations, but is completely free of charge (the comparison of editions' features can be seen here). Still, the exact version depends on the chosen hosting provider and may differ or be provided for a fee.
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Jul 3, 201307:00 AMBlaska's Bring It!
The staggered editor forgot ALEC, Fox News, and talk radio. Creating hobgoblins is one way the political left delegitimizes elections it loses. Another tactic is to complain about being outspent (except when Tammy Baldwin and Barack Obama are doing the outspending). The third is to pretend Republicans win elections thanks to gerrymandering.
It's become a Democratic meme, one that perfumes the bad odor left by Jim Doyle's Democrats and their $3.6 billion deficit, illegal fund raids, lost jobs, and accounting tricks.
Republicans "gamed the system with a power grab on redistricting to take over the Senate and retain the Assembly, even though Democrats received significantly more votes in the Assembly statewide," write State Reps. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, and JoCasta Zamarippa, D-Milwaukee.
It's important to remember that Democratic Assembly candidates received some 193,000 more votes than Republicans in the 2012 elections. Republicans hold a 60-39 lead in that chamber only because they made gerrymandering into an exact science when they redistricted Wisconsin.
This is leftist agitprop, and here's why. Democrats appeared on the ballot in 95 of 99 Assembly districts last fall, Republicans in only 76 — a difference of 19 seats. Put another way, only four Republicans ran unopposed compared to 19 Democrats — not counting third-party or independent opposition.
In Dane County, Democrats Diane Hesselbein, Melissa Sargent, and Chris Taylor were elected to their first terms in the State Assembly on Nov. 6 without Republican opposition.
Republicans tend to put on the green eyeshades and run their spreadsheets; most won't make the race unless they perceive an even chance of winning. Democrats, whose raison d'être is government, are more willing to run to throw themselves on the sword — even in heavily Republican Waukesha County.
Your phoney-baloney numbers massaging is even weirder than usual. Your logic has more holes than Swiss cheese! (No disrespect to the fine dairy craftsmen of Green County.) Yes, Dave, this state IS seriously and unfairly gerrymandered to the advantage of the GOP. Many Assembly GOP districts now have a 7-10 point advantage, a comfortable margin, especially for incumbents. Meanwhlie, Dem votes have been concentrated into fewer districts. For example, the Eau Claire area used to have 3 Dems representing it in mostly competitive seats. Now it has 1, who won with 97%. And what are you smoking that allows you to postulate that the 19 Assembly seats unopposed by the GOP could each be worth 11,000-odd votes to your side? In the next breath (you ARE inhaling!) you cite the Hesselbein, Taylor and Sargent unopposed races. Sorry, Dave, but I have a hard time believing there could be 11,000 total moderate Dems in those three districts, much less GOP voters (well, maybe Hesselbein's, but let's not let reality stand in the way of good hyperbole, eh Dave?).
And to think you used to have your mitts in the inner bowels of our Dept. of Revenue. One shudders.
Well, Logan, inhale deeply. In Chris Taylor's oh-so-very Madison Isthmus and east side district, the 76th, Republican Tommy Thompson compiled 7,130 votes. And that's the worst of the three for Republicans. So, that's more than halfway toward your 11,000-odd votes in the three uncontested Madison districts to which you refer.
Great post. Let's see how davey blows this one off. Keep his toes to the fire.
First, let me compliment you for posting under your real name, instead of cowardly using your SSquared moniker.
Second, I thought we were talking about the effect on Assembly races caused by the unconscionable gerrymandering of the GOP (remember? almost 200,000 more votes for Dems statewide, yet only 39% of the seats?). What's a race by Tommy! got to do with anything? Apples to apples, Dave.
Third, I'm not Logan, I don't even know who that is.
David: I admire your industriousness in making this argument, but Craig Gilbert, the estimable Milwaukee Journal Sentinel political analyst, comes at the issue from another angle: He looks at why two peas in the pod, Minnesota and Wisconsin, have polar opposite governance--and he comes to a different conclusion than you.
"Wisconsin is getting its most conservative governance in decades. Minnesota is getting its most liberal governance in decades.
"In their underlying political makeup, they may be as similar as any two states in America.
"But one is being governed like South Carolina, the other like Vermont.
"How did that happen? And what does it tell us about the way politics works today?
"One thing it tells us is that very small election shifts can end up having massive policy consequences, thanks to the growing ideological gap between the two parties.
"These small differences in election outcomes have outsized impact," says University of Minnesota political scientist Larry Jacobs.
"Put another way, the vast governing gulf between these two states is about the chasm between the parties, not about the difference between Minnesota voters and Wisconsin voters. The voters in these two states haven't behaved all that differently in recent elections. The average Democratic presidential vote over the past four elections is 51.43% in Minnesota and 51.65% in Wisconsin. Both states tilted Republican in 2010 and then tilted Democratic in 2012.
"But very small differences in election outcomes, amplified by very different redistricting plans, have led to total Democratic control in one state (Minnesota) and total Republican control in the other (Wisconsin)."
So redistricting is a factor in Republican hegemony in Wisconsin, according to Gilbert.
Then, how oh how did Republicans ever sweep the legislature in 2010? One thing I never read about is how many more Democratic votes there were in 2010 than Republicans??? For sure, it was greater. Facts and figures anyone?
Anonybob, I'd say you are the one operating without logic. If you can't see the significance of Tommy Thompson getting 7,000 votes in a district where no Republican ran for assembly, then you have business offering opinions on the matter of redistricting.
Slow day at the ranch, so I did some digging myself.
"In the 74 contested races, Republicans outpolled Democrats by 155,000 votes. The overall Democratic edge in all races traces to the party's 329,000 vote edge in races where only one party or another was on the ballot.
Republicans wouldn't or couldn't field a candidate in a whopping 21 districts (most in vote-rich Milwaukee and Dane Counties), while Democrats fielded a contender in all but four. That's a big switch from two years earlier, in 2010, when it was Democrats who sat out more races"
So, it seems like Politifact is agreeing with what Blaska is saying. Even Chad Lee in Dane County got quite a few votes - if you don't field someone for a race, who else are people going to vote for given no other option?? Not everyone is like me who writes in random names for all the Dem candidates here in Madison - so much choice here in the land of choice.
Marc, two different stories. Yes, the political parties have polarized. We know that Chris Larson drove out moderates from the ranks in Milwaukee, people like Peggy Krusick and Jason Fields. Supporters of school choice. Curious that choice is so popular in Milwaukee but its legislative delegation is not. My purpose was to explain how it is possible for Democrats to pull more votes in the aggregate but come up with a minority of seats.
As for CoolKevs, I haven't crunched the numbers on 2010 but that's not the point. The point is that Republican won the 2010 election on district lines drawn when Democrats had the majority in the 2001-03 session. Chvala and Decker ran the show.
CoolKevs, I was referring to your first question, about the 2010 vote. The point is that Republicans achieved their majority on lines drawn under a Democratic legislature off the 2000 census. Just to amplify the point about Tommy Thompson drawing 7,130 votes on Madison's Isthmus -- that was against Tammy Baldwin, who used to represent that area in the House of Reps, the State Assembly and County Board. Dems say they have a 72 county strategy; that's fine. GOP puts its chips where they will do the most good.


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URBAN Councils Association of Zimbabwe (UCAZ) president Bernard Manyenyeni has taken a dig at the majority of aspiring councillors in this month's polls, saying they were driven by greed and not committed to genuine service delivery.
The outgoing Harare mayor said this during a UCAZ executive committee meeting in Victoria Falls on Friday, where it was revealed that a record 346 candidates had registered to contest Harare's 46 wards, with 75 eyeing Victoria Falls' 11 wards.
"Being a councillor has become a job and a means of a living, a career, business and a pension when it's supposed to be a service," he said.
"Now, being a councillor has become the biggest job that we now do with minimum qualifications or with no qualification. You just have to have a degree in breathing and be over 21 years, but historically, it was for people who had something to offer in terms of their background in education, training and exposure to serve the city. Quite a number of councillors have nothing to offer except their bodies. They are not coming on particular strength or particular lines of confidence that I am a coming as a specialist around conservation, around water, law, health, finances. The capacity side is not on their CVs, so it's the most difficult job that requires less qualification," Manyenyeni said.
After a long debate on the issue of alderman status, Manyenyeni said they had invited three former council specialists for guidance in dealing with the matter, as one could not be automatically conferred that status without a proper portfolio.
"In terms of issues around alderman status, there are two issues that are requiring clarification. The first one is while the Local Government Act prescribes a minimum period of 10 years, that is only a minimum qualifying criterion. There is the further requirement that you must be nominated and motivated to be awarded and conferred the status of alderman. Ten years is the minimum, it is not the entitlement. Motivation must be made and council must approve.
"The other issue is whether he/she should continue on the token of being given a tea set as exit or financial package.
So those are two issues under discussion. We have sought the wisdom of one former Harare mayor and two former town clerks, Mike Ndubiwa and Moffat Ndlovu, and they will guide us both to confirm whether the 10 years is the minimum and the justification for financial reward attaching to the confinement of alderman status." Newsday


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Davison Co. keeps eyes set on jail security upgrades
The Davison County Commission will continue considering its options regarding the local jail's security system. At last week's regular meeting, the five-person board decided to table a $5,500 plan to review the Davison County Jail's existing secu...
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The Davison County Commission will continue considering its options regarding the local jail's security system.
At last week's regular meeting, the five-person board decided to table a $5,500 plan to review the Davison County Jail's existing security system, which was damaged during a power outage in August. The commission will meet with Larry Thompson, of Vantage Point, to discuss the company's $5,500 proposal to review the system.
The commission will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday instead of its regular Tuesday meeting time so it can canvass the results of the Nov. 8 election. The board will meet at the Davison County North Offices at 1420 N. Main St. in Mitchell.
Since August, the jail has not had full access to all the amenities previously offered by its security system, and Corrections Administrator Don Radel said a full replacement of the system could cost more than $50,000. But, he said, this initial study would help determine the county's options in repairing or replacing the system that helps monitor the inmates at the jail.
9 a.m.: Call the meeting to order, conduct the Pledge of Allegiance, hear citizen input, hear board reports and consider approving minutes from the previous meeting.
9:15 a.m.: Canvass the 2016 general election results.
10 a.m.: Meet with Larry Thompson, of Vantage Point, regarding the jail security system.
10:30 a.m.: Reconvene the RR Enterprises wine and malt beverage license hearing.
10:45 a.m.: Meet with Emergency Management Administrator Jeff Bathke to consider approving a "purchase." No details were provided as to what the purchase may be.
11 a.m.: Consider renewing the liquor licenses for Kongo Klub and Wild Oak Golf Course.
11:15 a.m.: Consider miscellaneous motions brought to the board and consider approving bills and timesheets.


Earlier this year, weeks before students were to take the state's standardized test, New York Commissioner of Education MaryEllen Elia traveled around touting the state's exams as a reliable way to measure students' progress on New York's learning standards, gave teachers a chance to vet the questions, and then tossed out time limits on the test. It was all an effort to tamper down on the number of students who opted out of the state's exams.
In the end, more students— 21 percent— in grades 3-8 ended up opting out of the Empire State's common core-aligned standardized test in the spring, according to the department and local media, up from the 20 percent, or 200,000 students who opted out last year.
The state's rowdy opt-out movement has caused several problems for the department which has wrapped the exam's results up with its teacher evaluations and school accountability system.
So many students not taking the exam has the potential to delegitimize to many parents the state's accountability system, which punishes schools with test scores that languish at or near the bottom.
The state last year put a four-year moratorium on including the test scores on teachers' evaluations, the state didn't renew its application with Pearson Inc. which authored and administered the test and the state is in the process of reviewing its standards.
Meanwhile, the state department is emphasizing instead the fact that more students this year passed the English/language arts and math portions of the exam and that the state's educators narrowed the achievement gap between white students and black and Latino students.
Betty Rosa, who took over as chancellor of the state's board of regents earlier this year, told Long Island's Newsday, "We made important changes to the assessments this year, and we're going to continue to look at ways to make them even better moving forward. While it's not possible to make direct comparisons of this year's results to past years, I'm cautiously optimistic the changes we're making will drive improvements in teaching and learning."


THE SIX MEMBERS OF A BRITISH WOMEN'S MOUNTAINEERING TEAM SET OFF FROM REMOTE NEPALGANJI IN WEST NEPAL FOR AN ASSAULT ON A PREVIOUSLY UNCLIMBED PEAK IN THE KANJIROBA RANGE, MARCH 28.
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Background: THE SIX MEMBERS OF A BRITISH WOMEN'S MOUNTAINEERING TEAM SET OFF FROM REMOTE NEPALGANJI IN WEST NEPAL FOR AN ASSAULT ON A PREVIOUSLY UNCLIMBED PEAK IN THE KANJIROBA RANGE, MARCH 28. THEIR GOAL IS THE SUMMIT OF AN UNNAMED 23,000 FOOT MOUNTAIN BELIEVED TO BE THE HIGHEST IN THE RANGE.
LEADING THE EXPEDITION - KNOWN AS JAGDULA 1962 - WAS THE COUNTESS DOROTHEA GRAVINA OF KENT. IN 1959 SHE WAS DEPUTY LEADER OF A CLIMB ON CHO OYU WHICH ENDED IN DISASTER AND THE DEATH OF THREE OF ITS MEMBERS IN AN AVALANCHE.
ITS EQUIPMENT LASHED TO A TRAIN OF 38 DONKEYS, THE EXPEDITION MOVED OFF WITH ITS GUIDES AND PORTERS ON THE FOUR WEEK TREK TO THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN. THE DEPARTURE HAD BEEN DELAYED FOR A WEEK BY A HINDU RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY.
THE COUNTRY THE WOMEN WERE ENTERING IS LARGELY UNSURVEYED AND IS SOME OF THE LONELIEST AND MOST RUGGED IN THE WORLD.


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Cruse Bereavement Scotland Launch Second Kirkcaldy Group
Step by Step is a social group set up by Cruse the bereavement charity offering support to bereaved adults who feel cut off or lonely or who just want to keep busy by enjoying the benefits of meeting new people and becoming involved in their local community.
The group, which meets fortnightly at St Bryce Kirk centre, does not focus on bereavement, although the loss of a partner or friend will be the main experience which the members have in common. Some bereaved people do not socialise as much after experiencing the loss of a loved one because they feel uncomfortable being on their own, maybe after a long period of time with their partner.
At Step by Step members do not have to talk about anything they do not want to. It is all about connecting with other members with similar experiences. Members are encouraged to take part in activities to build their strengths and resilience to become active within the community and as a member of Step by Step.
Jacqueline McGregor, Step by Step coordinator and counsellor, explained: "Some people after experiencing a bereavement stop doing all the pleasurable things they once enjoyed. "Through our group, members are supported to revisit activities and hobbies that once held meaning for them. They are also encouraged and supported to identify activities which are likely to meet their preferences and needs."
It is free to become a member and the group is a great opportunity to meet new people, widen social connections, feel a sense of belonging, pursue common interests and practical concerns in a safe, relaxed and friendly environment.
Group coordinators and volunteers ensure members can do what they want to, from chats over tea, relaxation exercises, breathing techniques, music therapy, painting, arts/crafts, quizzes, gardening, listening to guest speakers from community organisations and going on outings.
As well as the current Kirkcaldy group are is a group in Methil and another being set up in Glenrothes and Dunfermline.
If you would like further information please contact Jacqueline MacGregor, Project Coordinator at Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland by calling 07432 635 406 or e-mail: [email protected]
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Why build an aquaponics farm?
Grow your own veggies, herbs, and fish. They're all organic and you definitely know where they came from. Cucumber, romaine, tomatoes, sweet basil, lettuce, tarragon, mint – you name it.
It will motivate you to eat healthier. Aside of being proud of having grown things, your nearest source of veggies will be closer and cheaper than your nearest source of junk food!
Lowered carbon footprint. By ticking off veggies and fish of your grocery list, you remove yourself from that part of the supply chain which takes up its own set of environmental resources and produces its own waste. What's more, your urban farm makes little to no waste. Everything gets used up and becomes functional.
Educate your loved ones. Urban farming is a great way to get your loved ones, especially the children, to learn and appreciate how food is grown and why it shouldn't be wasted.
Community/family bonding. Having a shared farm is a good way to spend time with the people in your family and the people within your community. For sure, it will bring team work, accountability, and a few laughs.
Business opportunity? With a good enough turnout, you can sell your veggies and your fish to the people around you at a low cost. Since there's no harvesting months, once you harvest one batch you can go ahead to the next one without any lost time.
If you want a more detailed explanation, get in touch with Bahay Kubo Organics 🙂 For people who want to learn, they hold workshops in aquaponics farming. Aside from teaching individuals, they also teach communities here and in the provinces.
Here are just some of the places Bahay Kubo Organics has set down roots, in partnership with people who dream of sustainable communities.
The Dream Project PH in Brgy Su-Ay, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental. Photo by barangay captain Cherrie Hope Maravilla Belarga.
They've also built farms in the Las Piñas GK village and in Culion, Palawan 🙂 Read more about their efforts on Rappler.
If you know of any other communities, foundations or individuals who would benefit from an aquaponic urban farm, get in touch with Bahay Kubo Organics. If you'd like to meet them, you can also visit them at the Muni Market Day on March 28 at Capitol Commons where they'll be holding a workshop on urban farming.
great work! i came across another venture looking do something similar here as well.
Thank you for leading me to it @cambridgefemalecylist. Good to know it's happening all over the world.


Global economic inequality has attracted the attention of researchers and policy makers for several years. Globalization has raised questions about its impact on global inequality and poverty. However, the recent answers to such questions are ambiguous. According to some researchers, global inequality increases. Other economists hold that inequality decreases. One can also find the opinion that global inequality dose not exhibit any visible increasing or decreasing trend. One may ask the question what the reason of such variety of opinions about global inequality is.
The lack of countries' statistical income data, comparable across countries and years, seems to be the main reason of controversial conjectures concerning global inequality and its evolution over time. Global samples of individual income data on a worldwide scale would be ideal for this purpose. However, such micro-data are currently available only for a limited number of countries and years. In the databases, which purport to collect income data on a worldwide scale, only some summary statistics (quantile income shares, means, Gini indices) are presented. However, countries' Gini indices cannot be used for the evaluation of global inequality since this measure of inequality is not decomposable. Therefore, the development of efficient methods of extracting micro-data from available secondary statistics now seems to be the only way of overcoming the scarcity of national household surveys' samples. The recent 'ungrouping methods' have several shortcomings, among them unknown statistical reliability and the limited coverage of countries are the most serious.
In this monograph, a new method of retrieving the global sample of incomes is proposed. This method, based on the Sequential Probability Ratio Test, generates random samples, which reconstruct unavailable national samples with predetermined statistical reliability and numerical precision. The application of this method brings empirical evidences which contradict the widespread opinion about rising global inequality in two recent decades.


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Occupation: retired Marital Status: Married Number of Children: 3 Number of Grandchildren: 2 and still counting Number of Marriages: 2 What have you been doing since June '62 Tell us everything: I did not graduate from Southwest with our class, as my family moved to New York between my junior and senior years. I did my senior year in Port Washington, NY, and graduated from Colgate University in 1966 - when it was an all-men's school. Southwest was much more fun! After college, I lived in Manhattan in NYC for a year, and then moved to Baltimore, MD. I spent 20 years at T. Rowe Price & Associates managing money, and another 22 years at Alex. Brown Investment Management doing the same thing. I retired in 2011, and now spend time as a board member of the National Museum of Racing (Saratoga Springs, NY)and of McDaniel College in Westminster, MD -- both organizations were former clients. I head to Florida for several months a year, with the balance of my time spent in Baltimore where my 3 children reside. I consider myself very fortunate to see classmates from SWHS who live in and around Washington, DC. What are your best and worst memories of your days at Southwest?: My worst memory is having to leave SWHS before I graduated; my fondest memory was being able to spend 4 years there. For me, it was a marvelous time!
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Occupation: retired teacher Marital Status: Married Number of Children: two Number of Grandchildren: five Number of Marriages: one What have you been doing since June '62 Tell us everything: I got married to Roddy Parker in 1963. Mike Reicher and Roddy Parker are one and the same. It's a long story. Kim Judd introduced us at Winsteads. Michael was born in 1964. We lived in Massachusetts for three years while my husband was stationed at LG Hanscom Field. I Attended UMKC while he was in Viet Nam. In 1970 I graduated with a BS in Elementary Education from UCM then went on to receive an MS in Education with an emphasis in math, and continued with 30 graduate hours in math and science. I gave birth to our second son in 1972. I retired in 2005 after teaching in the Warrensburg System for 31 years. We have a home in Holiday Island, Arkansas outside of Eureka Springs that we had planned to retire to, but after I had a stroke in 2009, we have decided to just keep it and use it as a vacation home. We have five grandchildren. Two teenage girls live in Colorado and two boys and a girl under five live in Florida. We enjoy retirement and spend most of our time between Colorado, Florida, Arkansas, and Warrensburg, Mo. However we still enjoy our friends and traveling. We have traveled most of the U.S. and Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, St. Thomas and St. Martin. My bucket list includes Washington Stste, Oregon, British Columbia, Mt.Rushmore, the Bridges of Madison County, The Black Hills and Yosemite. < What are your best and worst memories of your days at Southwest?: My best memories of Southwest are music. I really enjoyed the choir, Southwest Singers, and Indian Bells and all the opportunities they gave me, I especially liked the operettas and plays as well as the trips to share our music.
I don't have any worst memories. After all these were the best years of our lives.
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Ken Patrick
Barbara Levitch (Paull)
Occupation: business owner Website: www.generalbody.com Marital Status: Married Number of Children: 2 Number of Grandchildren: 5 Number of Marriages: 1 What have you been doing since June '62 Tell us everything: Started college at MU. Did the monkeytime in my prime. Discovered what was behind the green door then transferred & graduated from UT Austin. Settled in Houston, Texas and jumped into the business world. Worked in advertising then got swept away with the women's movement and purchased the family business, General Truck Body. You know, being a woman succeeding in a man's world, etc. seemed like a thrill. It's been quite a ride. Professional highlights include sitting on the rotunda in front of Walter Reed Hospital for ceremonies introducing Patient Evacuation Vehicles built by my company to transport wounded soldiers returning from Afganistan and Iraq. Personal highlights include taking Betty Friedan shopping for clothes prior to her book tour appearance in Houston; staying married to Mark Paull, a wonderfully patient man,for 44 years; and rearing 2 sons: Josh, the heir apparent to GTB and Jonathan, a defense attorney, founder of pushLegal, a mobile app for lawyers. In addition, there are 5 grandchildren and 2 shih tzus to love. Fortunately, all are here in Houston. Talking points are opera in specific and music in general, movies, theater, art-especially studio glass sculpture (which I collect), travel and enjoying life to its fullest.Many thanks to Janet Glass and Shawnee Mission pals Sharon Jagoda and Marilyn Feingold for letting me know you can go home again. What are your best and worst memories of your days at Southwest?: Worst: Didn't like Mrs. Wells math class and was dumb enough to write about it for a spelling assignment. That experience taught me that public venting can produce unpleasant consequences. Still challenging to keep my pen and/or mouth still at times. Bests: (1) Practicing for my Bat Mitzvah while walking home on 63rd St. with Judy Moser. Bet she can still recite the blessings. After all, she graduated at mid-term. (2) As difficult as Latin class was, I credit my love of language to having taken that course. (3) Lastly, winning honorable mention in a citywide art contest for my collage of the 1962 KCMO skyline. That picture hangs in my office today. I love being a Texan; but, I'll never forget my roots.
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Steve Perkins
Barbara Sagl (Perry)
Occupation: See Below Marital Status: Single Number of Children: 2, 1 living Number of Grandchildren: 2 Number of Marriages: 2 What have you been doing since June '62 Tell us everything: Resident of Indianapolis, IN since 1976
After graduation, I married my high school sweetheart. About a year later, our son Tim was born. Four and one half years after that, our daughter Jennifer was born while we were living in Tulsa, OK. When she was two and Tim was six, he was diagnosed with Leukemia. He participated in a research program at M.D. Anderson in Houston, TX, living for 59 days in a sterile environment, like "The Boy in the Bubble". He lived for six years after his diagnosis; double the expected survival at that time.
Throughout our marriage we were transferred to various cities as my husband climbed the corporate ladder. Although I wasn't delighted about it at the time, I realized later what a great experience moving around and living in different cities really was. I was a stay at home mom and became interested in landscaping and showing and raising dogs. During our last stay in KC, I was the first woman ever to be elected and serve on the Westwood Hills, Kansas Town Board.
Shortly after Tim's death, we were transferred again, this time to Indianapolis, IN. After 15 years of marriage, my husband and I divorced. Not wanting to bring more changes to what was an already diminished family, I opted to stay in Indy and raise Jennifer here. My first job in Indy was with a neighborhood association with an area similar to the northern part of the Country Club area in KC. After about a year there, I spent another couple at United Way of Indiana working on annual campaigns and operating a fledgling county-wide emergency food pantry system.
The following eight years, I was the associate director of an inner city nonprofit development corporation. For the first time I actually saw that my work was making a difference for the long term good of a community. My proudest accomplishment was securing funding for the construction of 200 low-cost housing units for the elderly and disabled. Another marriage came and went sometime around here, too.
The next several years took me to Butler University as the Director of Community Affairs and Development for the university's National Public Radio affiliate where my position enabled Jennifer to attend Butler under very favorable terms. She graduated with a BS in Psychology with a concentration in business in 1989. (She is married to her perfect mate; they have two beautiful red-headed daughters, and live near Chicago.)
When Butler sold the radio station I found myself without work for 9 months. Putting Plan B into operation, I moved to a smaller home, and for the next several years I applied my skills in community and media relations for various nonprofit groups including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Art Center, and Easter Seals. Most notable probably, were two turns at the Humane Society of Indianapolis that reignited my love affair with animals.
I am a professional pet sitter, an active but peaceful job I have enjoyed for the past 11 years. I look forward to continuing this activity far into the future. My housemates have fur, feathers and a shell; there are a goodly number. I hike nearly every day with my two German Shepherds and continue to advocate for animal welfare and rights as a volunteer.
I have had the pleasure of working with various arts organizations both full and part time. These experiences deeply engendered a love of the arts; visual and performing – No real ability on my part but I am an enthusiastic fan and member of the audience. I also collect Outsider Art.
Both my vocation and avocation (with pets) will likely keep me from attending the reunion.
Personal philosophy:
--Handle every stressful situation like a dog.
If you can't eat it or play with it,
Just pee on it and walk away.--
I would enjoy hearing from anyone who also ended up in Indiana. What are your best and worst memories of your days at Southwest?: What I liked most at Southwest were the activities connected with the "Y" across the street from SW. No one believes me when I tell them about the Teepee Town (?) parades, the string of shiny new convertibles driven by high school students on loan from local car dealers followed by a line of kids that snaked through the Dime Store and other shops at 63rd and Brookside. (That really happened, didn't it?) I don't think it would have occurred to anyone to treat these privileges disrespectfully.
I enjoyed having a library in the school building and Miss Mueller for Spanish.
Altho the fraternities and sororities were fun and were the bedrock of social life at SW, what I didn't like were the distinct social and economic divisions I felt the environment created within the school.
I suppose that socializing eighth graders with high school seniors under one roof is probably not the best plan either.
Davida Singer (Pessen)
Occupation: retired Marital Status: Divorced Number of Children: 1 Number of Marriages: 1 What have you been doing since June '62 Tell us everything: I spent 50 years in the wonderful world of fashion. I have been dating the same gentleman for 30 years. We have had the good fortune to travel all over the world. Now that I am retired I volunteer at several agency that are child related.I am doing all the things I could not do when I was working. I love the arts,gardening,cooking,travel. Excellent Mah Jongg player also!Most important is the fine son I raised.He and his wife live in the city. My life is good. What are your best and worst memories of your days at Southwest?: My very best memory was graduation day!Cherry/Rubard pie, and the lunch ladies hairnets!Family living.Steve Wienberg and I had to do a budget.IT WORKED!I thought so much of Miss Varney--I repeated Junior English! Thanks to David Damon I made a passing grade,he let me look over his shoulder, or I would still be taking English!!Making my friends for life was a big priority.Roz Eisman,Phyllis Oliver,Ruthann Fried. And yes I did go to MU.
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Gary Peterson


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TIVA Building Products Corp. establishing operations in Barnwell County
$8.3 million investment to create 122 new jobs
TIVA Building Products Corp., a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) decking company, today announced plans to establish operations in Barnwell County. The company's $8.3 million investment will create 122 new jobs.
Headquartered in Canada, TIVA Building Products Corp. manufactures leading PVC decking and dock boards using adaptive security appliances (ASA) technology. The company's TIVADEK, TIVADOK and TIVACOAT product lines offer quality performance for outdoor spaces.
Located at 44 Bradley Drive in Blackville, TIVA Building Products Corp.'s Barnwell County operations will manufacture PVC decking and other building materials using the extrusion process. The facility will expand existing manufacturing capabilities and will be able to accommodate future demands as the TIVA Building Products Corp. brand continues to grow in North America.
Operations are expected to be online in August 2022. Individuals interested in joining the TIVA Building Products Corp. team should email the company.
The Coordinating Council for Economic Development has approved job development credits related to this project. The council also awarded a $250,000 Rural Infrastructure Fund grant to Barnwell County to assist with the costs of site preparation and building improvements.
"We are excited to establish a manufacturing facility in Blackville, Barnwell County. We look forward to creating jobs and building long-lasting relationships with the local community. We intend to use this facility as the launchpad for our expansion and can't wait to see what the future holds. Thank you to South Carolina and Barnwell County for this warm welcome, and we can't wait to get started!" -TIVA Building Products Corp. CEO and Founder Terry Fangrad
"When a globally recognized company like TIVA Building Products Corp. locates in South Carolina, it's further proof that our manufacturing industry continues to thrive. TIVA Building Products Corp.'s $8.3 million investment – along with the 122 new jobs they are creating – will make a big difference in Barnwell County, and we're excited to welcome TIVA Building Products Corp. to one of our state's rural communities." -Gov. Henry McMaster
"We couldn't be more excited that TIVA Building Products Corp. has chosen to locate its newest manufacturing facility in Barnwell County. The 122 new jobs they are creating will make a real difference in the lives of South Carolinians, and we look forward to watching the newest member of our state's business family grow and thrive in Barnwell County for many years to come." -Secretary of Commerce Harry M. Lightsey III
"Barnwell County welcomes TIVA Building Products Corp., and we thank them for not only investing $8.3 million into the Blackville community, but also for creating 122 jobs at their facility. Every good job they create provides a brighter future for someone in our area, and that builds stronger families and stronger communities." -Barnwell County Council Chairman Harold Buckmon
"TIVA Building Products Corp. will be an asset to our regional industrial community. We are especially excited about the 122 jobs they are creating in rural Barnwell County, and we are pleased that our communities have the right business climate and workforce to support this growing sector of building product industries." -SouthernCarolina Alliance Chairman Marty Sauls
TIVA Building Products Corp. is establishing operations in Barnwell County
Company's $8.3 million investment will create 122 new jobs.
TIVA Building Products Corp. is a leading a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) decking company.
Located at 44 Bradley Drive in Blackville, S.C.
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You may have heard of Yobo, the un-Yoga. It was my modest proposal for resolving the debate raging here on Elephant Journal and in the Yoga blogosphere over what is, or isn't Yoga.
We practice Yobo here. While Yobo is inspired by certain limited aspects of Yoga, it does not include enough meditation, breathing, spirituality and study of ancient texts to qualify as Yoga.
There would, of course, have to be a certification committee that would set the rules and determine what is Yobo and what is Yoga.
Then I got to thinking, gee, shouldn't we ultra-traditionalists have our own hot new name for what we practice? So I came up with the term "Radical Traditional Yoga," or Ratra Yoga.
One who thinks everything after the Yoga Sutra (about 2,400 years ago) is an unnecessary modern innovation.
One who reads and rereads the big three ancient Yoga texts, the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutra and all the commentaries he/she can find.
One who thinks later Hatha and Tantra practices are filled with as much distracting ritualistic excess as the Vedic rites the original Yogis (including Buddha) were rebelling against in the first place.
One who believes Yoga is not hard work, but rather ecstatic realization of the wonder of the universe.
Believes everyone is already wondrous ("divine", if you prefer) and Yoga consists of simply realizing that fact, through whatever method works for each individual.
One who therefore embraces all forms of Yoga, even Yobo.
One who does asana (poses), but only in limited form and as much for meditation as exercise.
Who believes the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita represent universal truths that can be found in any religion and any life.
Whose idea of Yoga practice is 1) living life with love and purpose, 2) detaching the ego from results, 3) focusing the mind, and 4) experiencing the wonder of the universe, just as these ancient texts proclaim.
Now that we have Yobo and Ratra Yoga, we can extend the Yoga spectrum in both directions with clarity for all, and embrace everything in between.


What would you like to hold off on?
Really, nothing. It's not that things are going so great for me, right now. It's just that you can't know yourself until you face your -- for want of a less cheesy word -- destiny. I usually avoid talking about my faith in web forums, but one of the most powerful images in my head comes from a sermon I heard as a child. The set-up is that a man is traveling with a heavy burden and keeps calling out for relief. Eventually, God answers his prayers and offers the man a choice of burdens -- no one gets to walk through life without a burden, God explains, but this time God will let a human choose what he will carry.
Through the course of the story, the man tries every other burden offered, and finds each of them worse than the one he started out with. The point of the sermon was that our burdens are uniquely suited to our selves.
Nietzsche makes much the same point in Also Sprach Zarathustra, but I'll spare you the details. I was convinced by the sermon when I heard it at the age of eleven. I was convinced by Nietzsche ten years later. I'd rather be me, being stuck with the things with which I am stuck, than try to carry someone else's burden.
-- Tom Dean (tsd@ogk.com), January 18, 2001.
Easy question, easy answer - - - - hold off on getting more decrepit than I already am.


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